Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Sonam Kapoor, Dia Mirza, Vicky Kaushal, Manisha Koirala, Paresh Rawal
Director: Rajkumar Hirani
When a biopic works, it leaves an indelible impact. This stands true for Rajkumar Hirani’s directorial Sanju. The film not only charts 37 years of Sanjay Dutt’s life, but also shows his growth as an individual. From being a brat in his youth, to getting addicted to drugs and alcohol, battling a legal case for over 2 decades, losing his mother Nargis to cancer, and his run-ins with controversies – Hirani makes sure he covers all pivotal events and relationships in his life. In Munnabhai MBBS, Hirani portrayed Sanjay Dutt as a tapori who’d break bones, extract money by using physical force, kidnap and threaten people. But he was still a man with a golden heart, and a conscience. It was through the loveable goon played by Sanjay that he could bring back Mahatma Gandhi’s principles in a fun way. And in Sanju, Hirani brings the life of the star to the big screen and covers the rise, the fall and the rebirth of Dutt, but doesn’t absolve him of his flaws or justify his life.
The film begins in Mumbai at Dutt’s residence with Maanayata (Dia Mirza) making an earnest attempt to get the celebrated biography expert Vinnie Diaz (Anushka Sharma) to turn his life into a book. Unlike Tripathi (Piyush Mishra), whom Dutt had hired to write his autobiography, Diaz wouldn’t draw analogy between Mahatma Gandhi and Dutt, and say bizarre things like “Bapu aur Baba ka life graph bahut milta hai. Ek ne lathi rakhi par kabhi nahi chalai, aur dusre ne AK 56 rakhi par kabhi nahi chalai. Ek ko chahiye thi desh ki azadi aur dusre ko sirf apni azadi.” Don’t be surprised if it reminds you of the film Lage Raho Munnabhai which added the new word ‘Gandhigiri’ to our vocabulary.
Director: Rajkumar Hirani
When a biopic works, it leaves an indelible impact. This stands true for Rajkumar Hirani’s directorial Sanju. The film not only charts 37 years of Sanjay Dutt’s life, but also shows his growth as an individual. From being a brat in his youth, to getting addicted to drugs and alcohol, battling a legal case for over 2 decades, losing his mother Nargis to cancer, and his run-ins with controversies – Hirani makes sure he covers all pivotal events and relationships in his life. In Munnabhai MBBS, Hirani portrayed Sanjay Dutt as a tapori who’d break bones, extract money by using physical force, kidnap and threaten people. But he was still a man with a golden heart, and a conscience. It was through the loveable goon played by Sanjay that he could bring back Mahatma Gandhi’s principles in a fun way. And in Sanju, Hirani brings the life of the star to the big screen and covers the rise, the fall and the rebirth of Dutt, but doesn’t absolve him of his flaws or justify his life.
The film begins in Mumbai at Dutt’s residence with Maanayata (Dia Mirza) making an earnest attempt to get the celebrated biography expert Vinnie Diaz (Anushka Sharma) to turn his life into a book. Unlike Tripathi (Piyush Mishra), whom Dutt had hired to write his autobiography, Diaz wouldn’t draw analogy between Mahatma Gandhi and Dutt, and say bizarre things like “Bapu aur Baba ka life graph bahut milta hai. Ek ne lathi rakhi par kabhi nahi chalai, aur dusre ne AK 56 rakhi par kabhi nahi chalai. Ek ko chahiye thi desh ki azadi aur dusre ko sirf apni azadi.” Don’t be surprised if it reminds you of the film Lage Raho Munnabhai which added the new word ‘Gandhigiri’ to our vocabulary.
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